This is the 1st post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. Hibernate is a widely-used Object Relational Mapping framework. Many organizations use it across their projects in order to manage their data access tier. Yet, many developers working on Hibernate don’t fully understand the full measure of its features.

This is the 2nd post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. Hibernate is a widely-used Object Relational Mapping framework. Many organizations use it across their projects in order to manage their data access tier. Yet, many developers working on Hibernate don’t fully understand the full measure of its features.

This is the 3rd post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In the third article of this serie, I will show how to tweak Hibernate so as to convert any database data types to and from any Java type so as to decouple your database model from your object model.

This is the 4th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this article, I will show the subtle differences between get() and load() methods.

This is the 5th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this article, I will show you how to manage logical DELETE in Hibernate

This is the 6th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this article, I will show you how to use the fetch profile feature introduced in Hibernate 3.5. Lazy loading is a core feature in Hibernate: it saves memory space. The reasoning behind it is, if you don’t use an association, you don’t need the object and thus, Hibernate does not load it into memory. Hibernate fills the lazy loaded attribute with a proxy that makes the SQL request when the getter is called.

This is the 7th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this post, we’ll have a look at the difference between saveOrUpdate() and merge(). Hibernate’s way for updating entities is through the update() method. We can get an object, detach it from the session and then update it later with no problem.